Over the last year, a Seattle school district in the throes of “restorative justice” experienced an alleged gang rape and several student deaths. Criminal charges, including murder, were filed against a group of students not yet out of middle school, reports the Seattle Times. Teachers’ unions in Fresno, Des Moines, New York City, and Indianapolis have all lodged complaints about the anti-discipline philosophy, according to Education Week. The Fresno teachers signed a petition pointing out that students are returned to class after cursing at teachers and physically assaulting them, without suffering any consequences. Fresno’s teachers have been injured trying to stop fights; some are retiring because teaching where severely disruptive students cannot be dislodged has become impossible. In Des Moines, students now hit and scream at each other and their teachers, reports the Des Moines Register.

Quote III

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Plato

Quote IV

PPS The real choking hazard is the vise-like grip of government. Mark Steyn

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"Our universities are now the most hostile place in the country to actual thought." - Ace.

Mitchell is a psychologist who served twenty-two years in the Air Force and who helped develop the CIA’s interrogation program. He only dealt with the top-tier terrorists and has spent more time with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) than other interrogators.

Readers should have their eyes opened by what KSM told Mitchell. These KSM quotes support Donald Trump’s desire to have a new immigration policy. Mitchell recollects in the book, “The ‘practical’ way to defeat America was through immigration and by outbreeding non-Muslims. He said Jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States, taking advantage of the welfare system to support themselves while they spread their Jihadi message. They will wrap themselves in America's rights and laws for protection, ratchet up acceptance of Sharia law, and then, only when they were strong enough, rise up and violently impose Sharia from within. He said the brothers would relentlessly continue their attacks and the American people eventually would become so tired, so frightened, and so weary of war that they would just want it to end. ‘Eventually America will expose her neck to us for slaughter.’"

In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, half the average global cost of coal power. Now, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Mexico are planning auctions and tenders for this year, aiming to drop prices even further. Taking advantage: Companies such as Italy’s Enel SpA and Dublin’s Mainstream Renewable Power, who gained experienced in Europe and now seek new markets abroad as subsidies dry up at home.

As the New York Times notes, Cuomo's plan could apply to as many as 1 million New York families though it was not "immediately clear how the program would be paid for"...which is just a minor detail anyway.

The ONT thinks that young people should be introduced into automation, design, build and repair. These fields appear more lucrative than a major in Early American Lesbian Art with a minor in Gender Studies.

S’mores come in two versions. The first is a chocolate-covered graham cracker with a thin layer of marshmallow; the other is sandwich-style — two vanilla wafers with chocolate and marshmallow in between. People.com said the first has very subtle S’mores flavoring while the second tastes more like marshmallow and is perfect for dipping in milk.

Having a tooth pulled in the early 1900s was anything but awful. You’d climb up into the back of a traveling caravan, surrounded by a booming brass band, sparkling costumed women, and next to a bucket of pulled teeth carried by a dapper gentleman with a goatee. In time with the band's cheerful tune, out would come your tooth, guaranteed to be a painless—and even entertaining!—extraction.

33"Fresno's teachers have been injured trying to stop fights; some are retiring because teaching where severely disruptive students cannot be dislodged has become impossible. In Des Moines, students now hit and scream at each other and their teachers, reports the Des Moines Register.

The daughter taught "at risk" students in Texas for the last decade and loved it. Said the kids needed someone to show that they cared about them and give them some discipline/order. She recently moved to Ohio when her Army husband got re-assigned. She taught for 6 months and quit to be a full time mom saying the kids up there are animals. In Youngstown at least.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (v3DL/)

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Re: Teachers Union complaining about monsters in the classroom? You're one of the Progressive Left's biggest backers in votes & money. The same Progressive Left that has been destroying American society & the family, and coddling criminals. Elections have consequences.

Posted by: josephistan at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (7qAYi)

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Time to arm the teachers?
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 05, 2017 10:11 PM (1CroS)
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I am reminded of one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books in which a nice teacher was repeatedly set upon by a bunch of disruptive toughs in his class. He came in one day with a bullwhip and flayed the little bastards into submission.

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American men don't hate Lena Dunham for being ugly. American men hate Lena Dunham for being a liar and a feminist (but I repeat myself).

Have you notice that no Canadian men want her in Canada, either? They've already got way too many ugly feminist liars in Canada.

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He's partially right. We do hate Dunham's lying, feminist* ways. But, the ugliness is also a factor, if only because we are told we are haters if we don't find her attractive. It's not just her lies; it is the demand that we have to pretend (lie) to find her attractive. She is ugly.

*I have nothing against feminists who are only about equal rights. But, the feminists who are all about the patriarchy and all that other bullshit are Gila Monsters.

Another journalist ran something by me she intended to publish. When I told her what she was saying was not even remotely true her response, " what I am going to write about you speaks to a larger truth that may not come across if I stick to the facts of the situation."

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when i was a tyke my parents took me to a restaurant where you sat at a counter with a train track. you placed your order on a train car that took it into the kitchen. later, your order (burger & fries) came round on the train and stopped at your place.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 10:18 PM (WTSFk)

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Someone on the truck thread the other day called hybrid/smart/electric type cars, "pregnant roller skates". I'm still getting a kick out of that since I see so many of them in Austin. I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.

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>>Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato

I never realized how enlightened Dana Plato was.
May she RIP.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (QAjcy)

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MH: Your Steyn link from Quote 4 is imperialistically expanding its territory. It has almost taken over Quote 5.

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Nice ONT, MisHum! I thought the Japanese sushi vid was particularly interesting.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2017 10:21 PM (EzgxV)

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If Lena Dunham were a nice, normal person who took some pride in her appearance, she could be attractive enough. However, she's as crazy as a road chicken, nasty, and seems to go out of her way to look unattractive.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 05, 2017 10:22 PM (nvMvs)

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Lena is physically unattractive, but really not that bad. That is not the problem tho. She is hideous on the inside. That ugliness comes flooding out of her when she opens her mouth.
She is a feminist like Hitler was a supporter of Jews. Peas in a pod in a way. Power and control over others is and was the goal.

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Sounds kinda like where I went to school.
MLK was assassinated when I was in 9th grade. That was last year of middle school back then. Okay,,, waaay back then.

After that, semi annual race riotsvfor the next couple years. We're talking cops with K-9's in the hallways. Around 2500 students in the school.
And as you can imagine, plenty of other fights besides the riots.

Huma Abedin's (deceased) dad, whose Islamic journal was/is all about how to subvert non-Muslim countries from within. His daughter did that quite effectively - was this close --> <-- to attaining the ultimate goal: inside the WH.

The Girl Scout thin mints used to be some of the best cookies out there, but they changed the recipe. I don't know what they did but those cookies pretty much have sucked for the last decade, if not longer. There are some cookies that they sell that are okay ... but none of them are worth the money and I don't like giving money to the Girl Scouts to have them indoctrinate young girls into the idiocy of leftism. Still, I end up having to buy a box or two eventually, because some friend has to be selling the cookies her daughter is supposed to sell ...

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teej- still going on in diverse schools. Jared Taylor, "white identity" is full of hispanic/black, hmong/black, armenian/Hispanic , you name it. just total riots in these schools. all taken from local news that doesn't get to the majors.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (I4BmC)

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Oh, shit. I keep forgetting to ask you morons and moronettes...
I need teapot suggestions.

Stovetop. 2 Quart. Whistle and ergonomic handle (for my parents).

They've been complaining about theirs.
Doublle bonus for something I can buy through Amazon to add to Ace's coffer.

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>>Lena is physically unattractive, but really not that bad. That is not
the problem tho. She is hideous on the inside. That ugliness comes
flooding out of her when she opens her mouth.

A lot of the hideousness comes from A] Her insistence upon forcing her flabby, intentionally unkempt, naked or near-naked body into public view *constantly*, and then B] Making the reaction to this exhibitionist compulsion a discussion about what is wrong with us.

Really think she has been abused/at minimum, suffering from mental problems. Nevertheless, she needs to just go away along with the Kardashians (who have at least had the good sense to properly monetize their exhibitionist tendencies).

A friend has an Excursion. Diesel. What a beast. I think a fuel fill-up cost something like $200. What's even more interesting is the 15 qts. of oil per change.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:23 PM (ZO497)

You don't change oil as often as you do with a car and in the Winter the Diesel can freeze and become like jelly. That is if the fueling station doesn't have a winter mix, which happened to a friend when they filled up in the south and drove north in their RV.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 10:29 PM (dKiJG)

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"In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour. "

They've been complaining about theirs.
Doublle bonus for something I can buy through Amazon to add to Ace's coffer.

Posted by: garrett

My recommendation:

Skip the teapot replacement and buy them an induction burner, instead. It'll boil their water in less than half the time and for less energy. Induction burners are the best things since sliced bread. No joking.

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I haven't heard of anything like it in my old school Bth.
I know it's not as many students as back then but still a 5-A status.
Same general make up too.
NaCly might see em if he goes to his local high school's games.

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"Research continues on the use of solar power. Is solar pushing coal for the cheapest power source crown? Time will tell."

Forget it, Jake. It's Bloomberg.

They're talking their book.

The sprawling Bloomberg organization includes an outfit specifically dedicated to structured finance for large "renewable energy" projects. And Mike B has absolutely no ethical qualms about having the Bloomberg "news" arm run uncritical puff pieces about exactly such projects. As we see here.

Take a look at all of the ridiculous, unfactual crap that spews out of Bloomberg's gun control initiatives. His "green energy" initiatives are no more honest than that.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (noWW6)

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Girl Scout cookies have declined in quality, but I've been boycotting them anyway since their cozy relationship with Planned Parenthood was exposed. The GSA can FOAD as far as I'm concerned.

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He said the brothers would relentlessly continue their attacks and the American people eventually would become so tired, so frightened, and so weary of war that they would just want it to end. Eventually America will expose her neck to us for slaughter.

Ha, not quite. She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so. That first outer ring, but, to be fair the house she's looking at gives us more square footage, more yard and less taxes.

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Re: Teachers Union complaining about monsters in the classroom? You're
one of the Progressive Left's biggest backers in votes money. The
same Progressive Left that has been destroying American society
the family, and coddling criminals. Elections have consequences.

What will solve this is MORE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOLS! IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

Posted by: The Teachers Union: We Know What's Best For "The Children" at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (qJhUV)

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I bought an electric water kettle. Boils water in about two minutes. One of the handiest things I've ever bought.

That's some funny stuff he does. He might be a bit of a weirdo but I think the people who would pay for that shit and hang it on their walls are the real demented loons. I would have a blast if I ever went to someone's house who some of that crap hanging up. I wouldn't be able to contain myself.

Good Lord, it's like The Cooch of Sauron - it burns, it burns, yet you cannot look away.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (EnKk6)

The Whispering Eye of Sauron

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)

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So he only paints the genitals of dem women? Ick.
Posted by: Ponzi at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (hVdx9)

google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm
*****

Tilikum thinks- no way in hell.
Suddenly he notices his hand opening a window and bringing up Google. Before he can stop it, it's entered :dunham father art
Desperately Tilikum uses his left hand to try and stop the right hand from engaging the search, but the right hand gouges his eyes. By the time his vision clears, he is greeted by the horror of his "art work"....then promptly gouges his eyes again.

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Well the "brothers" (jihadis) in Iraq had had their a**es pretty well kicked, albeit a few years late due to bizarre war-fighting concepts popular in the Army, yet the American people still tired (and whined) and abandoned the field to them. Non-chalantly. So they may misunderestimate *some* Americans, but not what seems close to a working majority.

But that 45ACP's not gonna load itself, almost to the end of one production run, so off I go.

One week to go til the Flouncerdammerung of the Jug-ears. Hang on.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (QDnY+)

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Same can be said for JT.
Posted by: teej
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JT's been a mental case since high school.

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Take a look at all of the ridiculous, unfactual crap that spews out of Bloomberg's gun control initiatives. His "green energy" initiatives are no more honest than that.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (noWW6)

Yep, you can probably cook the books to make it seem that solar panels can generate electricity at 3 cents/kWh, but what do you do when the Sun is obscured by clouds? Or at night? The usual solution is to bring on natural gas-fired turbines, which can spin up very quickly. But are not cheap to run.

If you look at overall life cycle costs, "green" power is neither cheap, nor "green".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (bG+ug)

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I liked him too Donna. Had Teaser Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman in high school.

I'm with her. You want land. The larger house and less taxes are just an added bonus. It's all about land, though - and a community that doesn't have insane zoning laws and wants to crawl up your ass for every little thing. I was surprised to find out that I had to get a permit to put a friggin garbage disposal in. I had never even contemplated such a thing. Some places have just gone apeshit with their local controls over everything and you really have to check that out, first. But lower taxes are a good indicator for less busybody regulations at the local level.

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Reading about "Painless Parker" reminds me that there are things that were NOT better 100 or even 40 years ago. Dentistry is Exhibit A.

You know, from an evolutionary POV, teeth are a puzzle. How many thousands of years of intense suffering before people were even capable of caring for their teeth properly? Yeah, I know people didn't eat as much sugar as we do, but still - crack that tooth on something and you're in for a shitload of pain without the capability of calling Dr. Molar for an emergency visit. And basic care, like flossing, wasn't done until the 20th century. No wonder people in the old days were proud of still having their teeth if they lived to be old. And before braces, there had to be a lot of buck-toothed people.

Just seems odd that teeth are the one part of everyone's body that is always high maintenance. Other parts of your body might not give you grief until middle or old age if you're from good stock, but teeth will.

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>>> I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.

"They used to make Diesel Suburbans. Sniff."

Several aftermarket vendors will offer you a modern Burb with a modern Duramax diesel powertrain transplanted into it from another GM truck product. If properly done, this can be a rock solid vehicle. That any GM tech in any service bay should be able to deal with.

I have thought about this at times. There is, however, my instinctive dislike of Government Motors. There's also the thought that if the Trump era is only a brief interregnum on America's long march into eco-Marxist madness, diesel is doomed.

Note that in the UK and EU, there was a huge official push for dieselization of ordinary passenger vehicles, because diesel emits less of that horrific substance, carbon dioxide, per passenger-kilometer. So: diesel vehicles got subsidized. A bunch of people bought diesel cars.

Now, though, officialdom in the UK and EU have decided that diesel emissions particulates are a risk to health and safety. So all of the suckers who bought these cars are stuck with punitive new regulations, fines, fees, taxes, and impaired resale value. Don't think that can't happen here, too.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (noWW6)

196Take a look at all of the ridiculous, unfactual crap that spews out of
Bloomberg's gun control initiatives.Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM

Looks like the $20Mil he spent in Nevada to pass a private-party background check initiative there is pissed away, since the Feds won't cooperate!

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All Hail Eris, the little house books had great illustrations. i think one of them was with the whip.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (sM1uH)

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Looks like the $20Mil he spent in Nevada to pass a private-party background check initiative there is pissed away, since the Feds won't cooperate!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (DMUuz)

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That's true as long as the GOP is in charge of the federal government. The reason the FBI said no is they are not funded or authorized to do the extra checks. But, if the Dems even get control of DC like they were in 2008, you can bet they will find the money for the FBI. And, that Nevada law is on the books, patiently waiting for the times to change.

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"She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so."

Which city? This is material.

I have known people who carefully bought in exurban or semi-rural areas outside of boomtown cities, and a decade later woke up to realize that all of the crime, traffic, noise, crowding, bad manners, and general dysfunction which they had fled had simply expanded outward to engulf the place where they now lived. Oops.

235That's true as long as the GOP is in charge of the federal government. The reason the FBI said no is they are not funded or authorized to do the extra checks. But, if the Dems even get control of DC like they were in 2008, you can bet they will find the money for the FBI. And, that Nevada law is on the books, patiently waiting for the times to change.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (R+30W)

There are other problems with the initiative as written, particularly when it comes to taxes.

I always like to approach big decisions like this by taking a piece of blank paper and making the longest possible list of pros and cons, then weighting them by importance. 20 minutes is a bigger deal than it may seem. Thinking about how it will be when you come home. Picking up items at the store? Dinner prep? Chilling time before "getting on top of chores" etc.Remember that the most important consideration is quality of life, and love. And there are many components to that. It depends on how you each weigh your priorities. The closer you are to a match in those priorities, the better the prospects.

242That's true as long as the GOP is in charge of the
federal government. The reason the FBI said no is they are not funded or
authorized to do the extra checks. But, if the Dems even get control of
DC like they were in 2008, you can bet they will find the money for the
FBI. And, that Nevada law is on the books, patiently waiting for the
times to change.Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM

True, but the "No" came from TFG's admin.

The Nevada of my youth would have said not just no, but HELL NO to such initiative foolishness.

Kaliforniaistan has private background checks. Are those state run and/or funded?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (DMUuz)

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Hey horde. Just want to share that my wife and son avoided being t-boned by a red-light running plumber's truck today. Would have hit my son on the rider's side, but my wife hesitated for no particular reason when the light turned green.

Guy to her left, who took off on the green, was hit. Driven across the intersection into a guardrail. Seemed to be okay--was walking around.

Grateful for mercies small and great.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (yL25O)

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I'm about to get emails from teej and concrete girl telling me to stop.

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Curious thing: for years I never knew the "blogosphere" existed -- I knew nothing but what I read at Drudge, never followed the links at all the sites that have blogrolls... I'd thought blogs were only random people writing about cats, badly!

Then one day, I read a story at Breitbart that piqued my interest and I GoOgled for more information on that story and TheOtherMcCain was at the top of the list... And that's rather why I'm here tonight!

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"I have known people who carefully bought in exurban or semi-rural areas
outside of boomtown cities, and a decade later woke up to realize that
all of the crime, traffic, noise, crowding, bad manners, and general
dysfunction which they had fled had simply expanded outward to engulf
the place where they now lived. Oops."

And they sold at a tidy profit? Since the city moving out to you generally is profitable if you are 10years ahead on the buy.

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I have known people who carefully bought in exurban or semi-rural areas outside of boomtown cities, and a decade later woke up to realize that all of the crime, traffic, noise, crowding, bad manners, and general dysfunction which they had fled had simply expanded outward to engulf the place where they now lived. Oops.
Posted by: torquewrench
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Almost every major metro area. I lived in what was almost rural GA, but close to Atlanta. 20 years later, it was over developed.

A friend in IN lives where there used to be a cornfield. Now, houses as far as the eye can see.

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When the minimum wage was increased here I felt justified in lowering the amount of my tip. Most of the restaurants here have a menu near the front door. If it says a gratuity is included in the price, I won't eat there.
I had dinner once at the restaurant in one of the hotels near Kennedy airport. The waiter slid my dinner plate to me from across the table. I left two pennies in the water glass for his tip.

Posted by: Hank at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (JzPCB)

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Right now there are around 9,000 Americans studying in Canadian post-secondary schools. Any increases aren't going to be that much. Of course, the reporters trumpeting the possible Trump effect usually don't mention the low Canadian dollar and relatively low tuition fees.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (exyD+)

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So today Homeland Security was here in Asheville doing an investigation, and had a bomb disposal truck with them....

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (w+Jhj)

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Screw the girl scouts and their cookies.
When they stop supporting PP, I'll buy their average cookies again.

Y'all will hate me, but last time two cute little GS came hawking their cookies at my door, I told them "I'd love to buy ten boxes, but I cant. GS partners with PP, who kills babies. When that stops, come back & I'll buy 100 boxes from each of you."

I bet there were some interesting talks at dinner that night...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (Mr60C)

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Evening horde, I'm looking to buy my first house.
The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.
Haha this is going to be fun.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:33

Good luck to you both. Congrats.
It took us 8 yrs to find the right home, but that in the Jimmy Carter yrs of 18% interest.

Elegance goes a long way. I was blessed with a patient and loving hubby who set a great example when it came to affection and lack of strife being priority #1. He chose to look at the positive and disregard the negative as much as possible. If that helps, you're welcome.Now I miss him like hell. Gonna take a long shower and wash my hair.

Well, I roast a lot of potatoes. They're all different, technically, but a lot of them are pretty interchangeable.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (iMxBJ)

276Yeah but it's still like wiping yourself with a brillo pad type love.Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM

I can order a coarser grade of steel wool, if needed.

Posted by: The Barrel at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (DMUuz)

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Solar power is great and everything, but the big problem is that its transmission is shitty. To get the electricity from the location generated to where it is used causes a lot of it to be "lost". The longer the distance, the greater the loss.

Now look at that map. The places that are optimum for generating the electricity are so far away from where it would be used, it makes very little sense.

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Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if you've taken initiative to follow up?
Posted by: Insomniac

Yes, their are too many applicants and their are some legal/HR bs issues, too.

All these democrats saying the Russians 'hacked' the 2016 election need to be asked, 'where were you in the sixties when anti-war protesters were giving aid and comfort to enemies of the US.

Where were you democrats in the seventies when you set up the Church commission and stopped CIA investigations into possible foreign involvement in anti-nuke, anti-war protests in the US. Where were you while the environmentalists where trying to shut down industry in the US?

Oh, that's right. You were on their side, giving aid and comfort to enemies of the US in the hope it would advance your political career.

Liberal educators HATE school vouchers, schools of choice, charter schools, and private schools, because they know very well that any parents with brains are going to get their kids the hell out of the filthy pits that liberal policies have given us.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (+lVUW)

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Catches blown kiss, eyeballs it carefully.
Aw, what the hell. nom nom nom.
Hey. Not bad.
Nah. Not gonna email ya on that one.
Just hate to see ya waste the effort on me.
Cause I guarantee if she sees what you've seen of me she'd be grabbing rocks to throw at her moniter.

the greatest advances in dentistry have occurred over the past 20 years or so. real advances in diagnosis and treatment.

i highly recommend the oral b automatic toothbrush. dentists recommend using it, mine did and i finally got one, and it makes a huge difference. truly.

in the ruins of herculaneum buried by vesuvius that buried pompei, they found port-side warehouse chambers with the remains of families huddled inside. they represented every age and station in life, from children to old age, from slave to patrician, and one thing they all had was excellent teeth. remarkable.

Evokes this great image of all the folks in the Obama administration running around pinning medals on each other 'til they all have enough hash on their chests they look like 3rd-world "military" dictators.

"And I got this one for pumping the Benghazi cover story. And I got this one for ... er... I'll tell you later...."

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>>If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.

Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.---I recommend you take some candy to give away to the little boys in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (/Nite)

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"And I got this one for pumping the Benghazi cover story. And I got this one for ... er... I'll tell you later...."
Posted by: mindful webworker - with justice and comments for all at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (TIFWI)

Pumping was also involved.

Posted by: Reggie at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (0mRoj)

318I think MisHum cheated and saved nerdygirl from the barrel by fixing her comment.

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Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (w+Jhj)

320307 ... if your dentist recommends oral b, some sell it to their patients, get one. you'll be glad you did.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (WTSFk)

The non-dentist version might be cheaper on Amazon. I got one some years ago, and I gotta endorse it, because...well, if you're ready for this. I had not been to a dentist in like 8 years. I bought this Oral B thing, and the first time I used it, there were chunks of tartar or plaque or something falling into the sink. That pretty much sold me.

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Never, ever be first into the intersection when the light changes. Make it a habit.
Posted by: Moran Mentat
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*takes notes*

Posted by: Googlemobile at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (ZO497)

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I know you guys are all telepathically raping me right now.
Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:48

Nope, not in the least interested. And could you stop posting here? I never watch any thing you are on.

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (o/90i)

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I'm needing an icepick to get rid of "the lion sleeps tonight" earworm...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (kP16F)

327
So what I'm hearing is that there's a secret nerdygirl fan club among those who have been granted Blog Powers.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (iMxBJ)

328American men don't hate Lena Dunham for being ugly. American men hate Lena Dunham for being a liar and a feminist (but I repeat myself).Speaking of which, Old Navy is still running that Amy Schumer commercial. There's just something about the shape off her face that pisses me off. The pointy chin, the little piggy nose, the little lips.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:13 PM (+lVUW)

329
Insomniac, my advice is to always offer to start as a 1099 guy in the interview. If you make it to an interview, your qualified. The actual hiring process is so difficult they may need someone last week, and it's a lot less risk for them.

Even after they stop supporting PP I'm not buying. That organization uses child labor to sell its goods. It's a national office which sells cookies while masquerading as a character building organization for girls.

338Solar power is great and everything, but the big problem is that its transmission is shitty. To get the electricity from the location generated to where it is used causes a lot of it to be "lost". The longer the distance, the greater the loss.

The biggest problem with solar power is intermittence. Real electrical production has to be constantly available and predictable. As mentioned above solar will be a good generator when there are storage possibilities. At that point solar will be great because it can be localized. But until battery technology or some other storage medium becomes practical and efficient solar will just be good for hobby electrical production. And the more people that put solar on their own houses will only serve to destabilize the electrical grid as demand will go through great fluctuations - meaning that tons of electricity that will have to be online "just in case" will end up being wasted and at other times draw from the grid will be large enough to take things down.

349
"If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.

Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.

---

I recommend you take some candy to give away to the little boys in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Amy Schumer"

Either that or a Ghillie suit and a good leafy location.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:18 PM (w+Jhj)

350the place she likes has lower taxes and a better school district? that's unusual

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (Om16U)

I have yet to see a school system that actually has been improved by onerous taxes and money flowing in - no matter how that district might be "ranked".

The fact is that K-12 education shouldn't really cost more than it used to - in fact the costs should be going way down since so much of what the school needs to use in order to teach has dropped in price or gone totally free. But ... for some reason the schools keep spending more money and teaching less.

366
"As mentioned above solar will be a good generator when there are
storage possibilities. At that point solar will be great because it can
be localized. But until battery technology or some other storage
medium"

Our computer models show CO2 will be a great at electrical storage in 20 years.

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TexasDan,
Was that accident at Brodie and Slaughter or Mopac and Slaughter?/// Seriously, I'm glad your wife and son are fine. I have an intersection near my house that has accidents all the time, mainly due to dumbass drivers.
In Texas, every other truck is a diesel and 2 out of 3 vehicles are trucks/suv's.(I made that up but it's mostly true)

Like the story of those cats who hop in the wheel well of an airliner and come back home after 8 months...*sniff*

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (QAjcy)

373
In The Barrel there are bagpipe, viola and Jew's harp trios to sooth the tormented soul.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 05, 2017 11:24 PM (J8/9G)

374
Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11

Very cool.

I think I'm off to bed now, freezing cold up here. Be well you Morons.
Down to 2 or 3 in NW IL

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 11:24 PM (o/90i)

375
The very liberal OCWeekly, of all places, has a reporter who believes nuclear *has* to be on the table if the USA wants to adopt a serious alternative energy policy.

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295
i highly recommend the oral b automatic toothbrush. dentists
recommend using it, mine did and i finally got one, and it makes a huge
difference. truly.

in the ruins of herculaneum buried by vesuvius that buried pompei,
they found port-side warehouse chambers with the remains of families
huddled inside. they represented every age and station in life, from
children to old age, from slave to patrician, and one thing they all had
was excellent teeth. remarkable.

Are you trying to say that the design for the oral b toothbrush was handed down from antiquity? Because I'm pretty certain I heard on Coast to Coast AM that it was reverse-engineered from the wreckage of the Roswell crash.

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"As mentioned above solar will be a good generator when there are storage possibilities. At that point solar will be great because it can be localized. But until battery technology or some other storage medium"
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Ah! My favorite Stimulus investment; Beacon Energy. The storage systems had a proclivity to physically explode. It was spectacular.

386
Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for
potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if
you've taken initiative to follow up?

Posted by: Insomniac

Yes, utter rudeness is the order of the day.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (tHwdc)

387
319 Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.

401
I saw a video on some Actors house and he had Wind and solar but instead of powering the house he made Hydrogen and stored it in a large tanks and used a house generator, now that makes sense to me

407
During the "Fukushima" tsunami, one of the best sites for discounting MFM fear-mongering was a pro-CO2-caused Global Warming site but that's pro-nuke. They're wrong but at least they're the tiny handful of Greens who aren't anti-nuke or using CAGW as an excuse to attack modern ("capitalist") society run on electricity. (Can't recall the site's name any more.)

It was just on the 'net, the holy warriors of Islam aren't going to be doing any major attacks; they are switching to the local random lone wolf mass shooting.

Wasn't it Kerry who said we can absorb the little attacks like that. What's forty or fifty casualties? Chicago shoots that many every week.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (FtRIb)

409The daughter taught "at risk" students in Texas for the last decade and loved it. Said the kids needed someone to show that they cared about them and give them some discipline/order. She recently moved to Ohio when her Army husband got re-assigned. She taught for 6 months and quit to be a full time mom saying the kids up there are animals. In Youngstown at least.
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (v3DL/)

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The more intelligence one has the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. -Blaise Pascal

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute. -Blaise Pascal

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher. -Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. -John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -John Locke

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. -Lord Acton

An intellectual is somebody who thinks that ideas are more important that people. -Paul Johnson, Wall Street Journal, Saturday, March 5, 2011, page A13

Posted by: Locke Common at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (cnNH/)

412
. I have an intersection near my house that has accidents all the time, mainly due to dumbass drivers.
In Texas, every other truck is a diesel and 2 out of 3 vehicles are trucks/suv's.(I made that up but it's mostly true)
Posted by: lindafell
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There was an intersection close to my house in Atlanta. There were so many accidents, that I took to timing the interval of crash to the arrival of emergency vehicles as a form of entertainment.

425
>>>Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door
and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was
really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (w+Jhj)<<<

Bwahahaha! I stole that dumb fucker's wallet when I hugged him. What a dope.

And here's a tip... don't trust anyone.

Posted by: 3 year old pickpocket at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (WidQN)

426Trump wants a much n igger navyThis week the liberal-left-Liberal shitrag, the Toronto Star, had the following frontpage typo on their Lifestyles section...

Where you from?An event for the offspring of mixed-race families shits a chord as the difficult to 'identify' find their people.

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trump
trump
trump
deport
deport
deport
!!!
why do I repeatedly post this?
because it is real fun to say in front of of a crazed anti trumper
Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM
*****
You post it for me. That's why.
It doesn't get old for me ever.

438
I saw a video on some Actors house and he had Wind and solar but instead of powering the house he made Hydrogen and stored it in a large tanks and used a house generator, now that makes sense to me

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (dKiJG)

It's almost as rewarding as earning money in dollars, changing it into pesos to bank it, and then changing it back into dollars to spend it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (bG+ug)

439
Evening Morons pardon my rant.
We've had 2 foster kids since July. We have made it abundantly clear to CPS from the day they were placed that we would absolutely, unequivocally adopt them. Were told by CPS we couldn't even SPEAK to an adoption lawyer until we had them 6 months. Every CPS visit "Can't wait until the end of Jan when we can move forward with the adoption!" Always the same CPS worker. She knew. Had long discussions about it. In Oct she announced that they had located the alleged father's sister through diligent hard work, made an effort to tell us how difficult it was locating her out of state because neither the kids mom or alleged father would cooperate. The sister named the brother of the great aunt's husband as a possible adoptive family. Basically nobody related to the kids at all. The sister had no idea her brother had kids until CPS called. CPS says that since it is the family's wishes, they have no choice but to transfer the kids. But, since it is an out of state transfer, it will take a couple of months. The transfer was approved and scheduled for Dec, but one of the kiddos got an ear infection and couldn't fly. Now has to see a specialist before he can get cleared to fly. We are approaching 6 months, so we decide to contact a lawyer. The lawyer says "Why didn't you contact me 3 months ago, we would have been able to have your adoption complete by now." Called the CPS worker and let her know our intentions. "We had no idea that you wanted to adopt, that is why I searched out other family." Fucking seriously? /rant off

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (dnWSK)

440
No, wedding location is on lock down and has been for about a year.

We're expecting a dusting overnight, less than an inch. I can see that there is visible snow on the windshields below my balcony. Not much.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (tHwdc)

450We have made it abundantly clear to CPS from the day they were placed that we would absolutely, unequivocally adopt them. Were told by CPS we couldn't even SPEAK to an adoption lawyer until we had them 6 months.

Bullshit on CPS. They have no right to refuse you the right to counsel.

Where's Alex? She's sicced velociraptors on idiots for less.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (6FqZa)

451
And if anyone is going to fly through Atlanta this weekend, call your airline right now and change your reservation.

467
WOW! Thank you for an amazing quote. Sometimes you read something that snaps together several different running thoughts into one mega-thought and this did it for me. I freakin love this place!

>>> "Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Plato"

473370 TexasDan,
Was that accident at Brodie and Slaughter or Mopac and Slaughter?/// Seriously, I'm glad your wife and son are fine. I have an intersection near my house that has accidents all the time, mainly due to dumbass drivers.
In Texas, every other truck is a diesel and 2 out of 3 vehicles are trucks/suv's.(I made that up but it's mostly true)
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (JNDQi)

No, 290 and South Congress.

They should just close that intersection. It's like bad Frogger for the homeless, and traffic too. My friend got messed up by a cement truck there; my wife was hit from behind on the entrance ramp to 290 there last year.

I officed at Penn Field last year, which is right by that intersection, and people in my office saw two pedestrian fatalities in a year. One witnessed the actual impact.

Supposed to have Robotics build season kickoff at the High School Sat. morning but that's looking unlikely.
Posted by: Hugh Jorgen
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That can shut this area down for quite a while. And we (Mom) have a pretty important appt Tuesday morning.

Shouldn't be that bad around here, but it usually is. It'll be the earliest in recent memory that we got dumped on so hard.

498494 Oh yeah, SoCo and Lamar are both train wrecks, South 1st ain't a party either. Remember that 290 was way worse before they added the flyovers.....
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (JNDQi)

I'm at risk of dating both myself and my arrival to Austin, but I got to climb around on those 290 flyovers during grad school, as my research related to the way TXDoT builds those things.

I will take that over this sub 0 shit
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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We're just not prepared for it around here. I can't speak for Vendette's part of the state, but here, the major routes MIGHT get cleared in that ti.e, but side streets will be ignored.
So, a bit PITA for many to even get to an artery, just to see if you can make it to the Doctor's appt...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (Mr60C)

516475 Anyway don't burn this place down Horde.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (nDcc3)

While this is a storm that will have an impact on the South, what happens here is kinda up in the air. But any accumulation will be finished by Saturday afternoon here.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (exyD+)

532
@439 Cat Ass Trophy-How old are the children, if you can say, why do the parents not want them? How are the children holding up with this rejection?

Kiddos are 23 mos and 13 mos (Irish twins). Mom is an unrepentant drug addict. Had 3 kids taken previously. Told CPS that there is nothing wrong with using Meth, and she has no intention of stopping. Dad is a rapper wannabe fucktwit. Luckily they have no memory of either, both have been in CPS custody for a year.
The couple CPS wants to send them to is 65 years old and lives 1000 miles from any other relative to the kids. But CPS still says it is most important that the kids maintain their family and cultural identity. Since they aren't being transferred to an actual relative, that is BS. The real issue is, I believe, the kids are Mexican, and we are not. Culture, you know. They need to be raised celebrating Cinco, not the 4th.

539
Pro Tip: if you go to the website for your local NWS office, there should be a map on the main page that you can use to drill down into the details, and, with a click of the mouse, get a very localized weather forecast for your house, office or what have you.

i have one for the FOB, and for the two local ranges we go to most often here in The Valley (no sense going skeet, trap or sporting clays if it's windy as F), as well as for the place out in Corona where we go pheasant hunting.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (LeaWx)

540
I admit it: this tweet really turned me on today. Cosplay by Alexandria the Red...

Not one, but two dumb grammar mistakes in that story:
"protester's", when it should have been "protesters' ", and "breaks" for "brakes".

Truck driver should get a medal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (bG+ug)

545
Can't figure out what's happened in Seattle. There are reports of shots fired at an Anti-Trump protest. There are reports of a truck driving into people in an Anti-Trump protest that was blocking a freeway. It's all very chaotic, and one of the reports comes from the "Seattle Tribune," which I don't seem to recall as being an actual paper.

It was a traffic accident from hell on the 290 construction project in the mid-'80s, that caused the Texas Department of Public Safety to prohibit motorcycle escorts of oversized/overweight loads in highway transit.

Only local P.D. officers can now escort said loads in local jurisdictions and urban/semi-urban settings.

Such as escorting wind turbine parts from the Port of Galveston to the North side of Houston, for transit to other parts of the country.

Four-wheel pilot-cars/trucks must then take over the escort role, between cities.

The wreck on 290, a motorcycle cop tried to "wave-onward" a 39 y/o female driver, in order to clear the way for an oncoming truck, hauling a 119 ft. long precast concrete beam for one of the 290 overpass segments.

She, seeing "motorcycle cop", hit the brakes and was immediately run over by the truck and it's combined 191,000 lb. weight. Crushed her car between the truck and a concrete Jersey Barrier.

The recovery of the body was done with great care and respect, and square bladed shovels, hand-trowels and many absorbent towels.

573
Can't figure out what's happened in Seattle. There are reports of shots fired at an Anti-Trump protest. There are reports of a truck driving into people in an Anti-Trump protest that was blocking a freeway. It's all very chaotic, and one of the reports comes from the "Seattle Tribune," which I don't seem to recall as being an actual paper.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (iMxBJ)

Good eye, Splunge! It's fake news.

Disclaimer

The Seattle Tribune is a news and entertainment satire web publication. The Seattle Tribune may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within The Seattle Tribune are fictional and presumably satirical news - with the exception of our "list style" articles that include relevant sources. The content published on The Seattle Tribune is intended to be entertainment and is often intended to generate thought and discussion among its readers. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. The Seattle Tribune is not intended for children under the age of 18.

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@532 Cat Ass Trophy-Thank God there that young. Hope you get them. Cultural identity? F**king kidding. I was raised by a Mexican stepmother. She used to help host Reagan fundraisers when he ran both times. Cultural identity what a crock of shit.

If you're leaving in the morning, you'll be OK. Right now from what I'm reading if there is a storm impact in the DC area it will be midday. But if you want an update or two tomorrow shoot me an email at linseyziq at hotmail.

Posted by: Vendette at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (exyD+)

582Talking Heads, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan can provide a song suitable for any occasion or purpose. The science is settled.

I don't remember ever hearing any Paul Simon or Dylan lyrics that meant much of anything. Talking Heads ... I don't even remember any words - but I was never a big Talking Heads fan. Good music ... but that's as far as it went for me.

586So the Seattle story is fake?
Damn. I believed it. Mostly.
There was a little twinge of disbelief, but I suppressed it. I didn't buy the idea that the protesters would get out of the way once they had traffic stopped the first time.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 06, 2017 12:06 AM (FtRIb)

587
Talking Heads had several songs that have been the perfect soundtrack to this or that moment in my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gK2fOq4MY

590
very first sous vide steak tonight. I don't think it is possible to screw it up much. My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan. Oh, and sear with butter which I didnt do but it was perfectly cooked and if anything the damn steak got plumper than at the start.

Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (CL76w)

591
584; mh, we are the england of the north. whoever that cockholster was that visited london back in the nineties, needs to be shanghaied. i blame that fuckin diamond jim doyle. asshole.

596
very first sous vide steak tonight. I don't think it is possible to screw it up much. My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan. Oh, and sear with butter which I didnt do but it was perfectly cooked and if anything the damn steak got plumper than at the start.

Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (CL76w)

Well, vacuums do tend to suck in stuff that's not nailed down. Funny, i don't remember emptying the cat's litter box this morning.

A tiny bit of Bacon Fat and a tiny bit of butter. Too much and you won't get a good browning.

Posted by: garrett at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (QAjcy)

598
Real news: it's going down to 27 tonight here in the North Bay. That pretty much never happens. Just got back inside after harvesting a huge bowl of lemons from our lemon tree, and, at Mrs. Splunge's suggestion, covering the tree with a couple of horse blankets.

Posted by: Splunge at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (iMxBJ)

599
587. Yes, of all their works, that's the one o keep going back to. There's a pathos and a depth to it that one would not expect at all. I met David Byrne once and thanked him for that song. And #1 son is named after him.

606590 very first sous vide steak tonight. I don't think it is possible to screw it up much. My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan. Oh, and sear with butter which I didnt do but it was perfectly cooked and if anything the damn steak got plumper than at the start.
Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (CL76w)

Hard to argue if it's perfectly cooked, but one possible point: I read an article about cast iron pans vs. stainless steel that pointed out that cast iron transmits heat by contact at a much higher rate. Apparently that's why they're so great for browning, and it would make them just the right tool for searing off a sous vide steak. Of course you could help yourself by using some oil/butter/ghee, and patting the sides of the steak with paper towels to dry its surface before putting it in the pan.

609
521
Next week Friday is Carl's service at the Central Texas State Veteran's Cemetery at high noon.

Thank you all.

http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3bt/1

Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (ahx2/)

So "Generosity" finally released the funds to you? Good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (bG+ug)

I'm a little miffed that generosity is supposed to differ from indiegogo by being more engaged for "emergencies"....and then using the same accounting department to disburse funds under the same strictures on the same timeframe with the same holiday shutdown. But I'll reserve any action until after the check clears.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (EzgxV)

610277 Solar power is great and everything, but the big problem is that its transmission is shitty. To get the electricity from the location generated to where it is used causes a lot of it to be "lost". The longer the distance, the greater the loss.

Now look at that map. The places that are optimum for generating the electricity are so far away from where it would be used, it makes very little sense.

612
If you're leaving in the morning, you'll be OK.
Right now from what I'm reading if there is a storm impact in the DC
area it will be midday. But if you want an update or two tomorrow shoot
me an email at linseyziq at hotmail.

Posted by: Vendette at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (exyD+)

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on that. This is a day trip. If anything dubious is going on, I'm staying home. It's not urgent. My destination is NW of Philly, also on the edge.

I follow Jay's Wintry Mix on FB. He specializes in Loudoun County weather (school/gov't closures). He's been pretty good for the past few winters.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:17 AM (tHwdc)

613
Wow. Maybe now that there's a body count on the *protester's* side the police will stop this craziness? #BLM traffic protest like this have already resulted in other deaths by impeding ambulances.

The thing is, this will haunt the driver who was just doing his regular commute when a bunch of idiots jumped in front of him.

Posted by: Literally every woman on at January 06, 2017 12:13 AM (NOIQH)

There's no body count. Seattle Tribune claims to be a satire site. Click on "disclaimer" at the bottom of the page. Satire is supposed to be funny, and they haven't achieved that.

Solar is just a crappy, overly expensive, low density, irregular power source.

Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (22if9)

There are always losses when transmitting power over long distances. Ohm's Law is the law around here.

But you can afford some losses when transmitting hundreds of megawatts from a cheap coal or nuclear power plant, which is a point source. With solar or wind, you have to first gather in the power from distributed generators, before you can distribute it. So your losses are at least doubled, and on a pricier product, to boot.

Exactly how does that work?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:34 AM (EzgxV)

like sneezing but it winds up all over her mother.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 06, 2017 12:37 AM (cPsPa)

658
651 Margarita, one of the best long weekends hubby and I have had, it rained the whole time, but it kept the crowds small, too much fun!
The sun came out the day we left, haha!

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (9plvG)

659Blanco, I grew up on Herb Alpert, the Kingston Trio and the Limelighters.

Got all of that plus The Association, Fifth Dimension, Earth Wind and Fire. Papa Basura worked as a broadcast engineer for many years, got himself a lot of records that way. About a year after he died Mama Basura tossed it all.

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658
The sun came out the day we left, haha!
Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (9plvG)
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It never fails!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:40 AM (Nox3c)

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655 cthulhu, so had a wicked cold before we left for New Orleans, drank juice, vitamins, rest the whole nine yard, then felt great the whole weekend we were there!
Got home and I'm sneezing like a madwomen, haha.
At least I was feeling good for our trip!!

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:41 AM (9plvG)

664635 Electricity is moved between States on a regular basis.
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Transmission losses are directly proportional to distance. Inescapable.

Feeder lines are counted in the cost of building a power plant. A conventional power plant still makes a profit when all is said and done. A solar power plant only makes a profit with massive subsidies.

I'm glad to hear that - hope she's saving some for you!Simple recipe, tricky dough. Takes practice. I just made another batch for the PA branch of the family in anticipation of my drive up on Saturday, weather permitting. For some reason it kept sucking flour. A lot depends on the moisture content of the flour, so the amount varies. Too little and they're porous - too much and they're tough. They need to be soft but well-textured.

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The cool thing I took from New Orleans, everyone has the perceived idea what it's gonna be like, and it was quite another.
I loved the people of New Orleans, true southern hospitality, and the beignets were really just so damn good! But I could've just been drunk, haha

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Got all of that plus The Association, Fifth
Dimension, Earth Wind and Fire. Papa Basura worked as a broadcast
engineer for many years, got himself a lot of records that way. About a
year after he died Mama Basura tossed it all.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (IcT7t)

Sad!We didn't have a lot of LPs, but I'm pretty sure almost everything was stereo. We had one of those great cabinets made of beautiful wood, with the built in speakers on either side. My brother had to drag my dad kicking and screaming into the CD era.Hell, my ex had to drag ME kicking and screaming into the CD era.

Awesome! Grandma would be impressed that her cookies have made it into Texas and Wisconsin

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:53 AM (tHwdc)

676
brought home the accessories for the Steyr HS today... Ammomaster Kit from RCBS, various dies and such, ~500 rounds of factory ammo, some brass and two weights of projos, plus 4 large boxes of primers.

rifle can come home next Tuesday, after the weekly trip to the alergy clinic in Left LA.

on the upside, it's the next to last time i'll have to be there longer than 30 minuets after my shot.

down side, i'll be headed up the 4 or 5 hour freeway after 3 PM, which is after rush hour starts on that stretch.

678
This is one of my favorites from the Kingston Trio. I sang it to Mr. D on our honeymoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Ms6sM9noY

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:55 AM (tHwdc)

679Sad!
We didn't have a lot of LPs, but I'm pretty sure almost everything was stereo. We had one of those great cabinets made of beautiful wood, with the built in speakers on either side. My brother had to drag my dad kicking and screaming into the CD era.
Hell, my ex had to drag ME kicking and screaming into the CD era.

I was an early adopter of CD's. As soon as I could find a player under $200, I bought it. Then marvelled at the 20 or so choices of CD's I could buy.

701
They were fascinated. Unfortunately they also immediately tried to "scratch" with it... which is okay, they're kids. (I had to buy another phono cartridge though.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:03 AM (u8kLQ)

No that's not OK. Should have made them pay for the ruined cartridge and the LP. If some fuckhead rapper/DJ/lout wants to scratch his own records and cartridge, let him do it. But your niece/nephew vandalized your stereo.

Plus, you haven't seen how adorable they are. And they love me back, which I can't say about everyone in my life. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:10 AM (u8kLQ)

Sixty bucks or more for a good one? Still, they should be made to pay for it. Same as if they broke a window playing baseball. I concede they probably didn't know it was harmful to do that, but it was still a deliberate act.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 01:13 AM (bG+ug)

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AOP, if I had told their dad, he would have bought me a new one. :-)

The difference in losses is the nature of Solar electricity. Because Solar is just a crappy, overly expensive, low density, irregular power source, It requires extra work to get it into a generally useful form. Even without storage considerations you have to assemble all the low density bits and bobs into a useful, transmittable chunk of juice.

Conventionally generated electricity loses are mostly just line losses, mainly in the transmission lines. They produce salable electricity 24 hours a day with no expensive storage required.

723
Skimmed the comments and didn't see this mentioned so here's my take on Cat Stevens (Yousef Islam as he's now known) is a devout muslim and as time goes by seems to be getting more devout. He agreed with the death sentence given to Salmon Rushdie for example.

I used to like his music but I can't listen to it anymore, knowing what is now in his heart.

Posted by: Boots at January 06, 2017 01:54 AM (EBwPV)

724
Ok, still awake and just got to say why the hell does Padma and Gail Simmons get a say on who cooks good on Top Chef? Does either one of them cook?
Yeah, I don't think so, all they do is look pretty & yammer on about how their palate was offended, well fuck you girls, learn how to cook then you can dog on other peoples cooking, haha.
Night all, God Bless

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 01:55 AM (9plvG)

725He agreed with the death sentence given to Salmon Rushdie for example.

I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?

732
I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?

I remembered the controversy from back in the 80's so just now went looking around the internet - Yusef's wiki page and a number of pages linked to it go into detail. Basically he was asked about the fatwa on Rushdie and said that he agreed, death was the punishment for blasphemy.

Once he started catching serious heat for it he claimed the whole thing was a joke. But he left the music world for quite a while, sold his guitars, and has only recently decided to get back in as 'Yusef".

Posted by: Boots at January 06, 2017 02:15 AM (EBwPV)

733731 I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?

Best advice I can give you is get busy. With anything. Whether it's a hobby or just chores around the house, get busy. Stay busy if you have to. Just to keep from thinking about something you can't change.

739
Tim, you have an email with information about why you may want to limit the correlation of your IRL information with this site in particular. Not that you should immediately become Elizabeth in Duluth, or anything....

754
Has anyone been on twitter tonight for the big Yahoo! Finance typo and the hilariousness that followed?---not seeing it on Twitchy.... got a link?

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:22 AM (LeaWx)

755
754 Twitter has disappeared the #N*****Navy hashtag, but Black Twitter has taken the joke and run hard with it.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:24 AM (AaZLR)

756
Can't give the actual hashtag, as it gets filtered. Doubt Twitchy will touch it, as it's just funny. Yahoo meant to say "Bigger Navy" but ended up posting "N***** Navy", and it became a hashtag with thousands of responses.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:26 AM (AaZLR)

757
750 Dread Lord, yes, it's still there. It's an institution at this point. Autocomplete changed the capitalization of the handle, but that's easily fixed.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:15 AM (AaZLR)

Glad to see you. Still got the same job? I'm closer to leaving CA, but it's hard to say how close as the fiancee keeps wibbly-wobbling. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:28 AM (EzgxV)

758
Left the old job after 14 years a while back, felt like a divorce, but it was time to go. I'm looking for something new right now.

On the exciting front, I *did* get engaged just before Christmas, so there's that.

760
Sorry you're still in Cali, but I get it. Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:37 AM (AaZLR)

761
Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a
place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.---true dat: Resident Evil and i are both LA natives...

part of us wants to move, because #Failifornia, but the ties that bind say else-wise.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:43 AM (LeaWx)

762
761 Sorry you're still in Cali, but I get it. Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:37 AM (AaZLR)

Only reason I'm here is the fiancee....the culture of this place sickens me. I should note, however, that the fiancee is reacting to the FUD that the media is spewing. Trump needs to curbstomp these guys.....luckily, he's just the guy I'd expect to do it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:44 AM (EzgxV)

763763 761 Sorry you're still in Cali, but I get it. Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:37 AM (AaZLR)

Only reason I'm here is the fiancee....the culture of this place sickens me. I should note, however, that the fiancee is reacting to the FUD that the media is spewing. Trump needs to curbstomp these guys.....luckily, he's just the guy I'd expect to do it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:44 AM (EzgxV)

I should also note that I'm a native Californian, while she moved here after college. I remember when being born in California was a birthright to the promised land.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (EzgxV)

764
That's the thing about Cali - Cthulhu and I have been chatting off and on for years about leaving Cali, since I live in Nashville, which is a common home for SoCal refugees. It's a great city, but if you love Southern California for what it is in terms of nature and culture, you can't get that anywhere else, no matter how much further your dollar goes elsewhere. I remember when Nissan USA moved their HQ here and the split that it created in the workforce. Those who love SoCal stayed, and those who didn't moved here and were delighted to get huge houses and better schools for 1/2 the price they were paying. It all came down to priorities and personal value.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (AaZLR)

765I should also note that I'm a native Californian, while she moved here after college. I remember when being born in California was a birthright to the promised land.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (EzgxV)

We find new rights all the time, it seems, but birthrights rarely make it past a generation or two.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:50 AM (AaZLR)

766
Also, kudos to me for remembering how to format on this kludgy old site.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:51 AM (AaZLR)

767
765 That's the thing about Cali - Cthulhu and I have been chatting off and on for years about leaving Cali, since I live in Nashville, which is a common home for SoCal refugees. It's a great city, but if you love Southern California for what it is in terms of nature and culture, you can't get that anywhere else, no matter how much further your dollar goes elsewhere. I remember when Nissan USA moved their HQ here and the split that it created in the workforce. Those who love SoCal stayed, and those who didn't moved here and were delighted to get huge houses and better schools for 1/2 the price they were paying. It all came down to priorities and personal value.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (AaZLR)

SoCal has a pretty-much optimal climate for humans. It's shared with Israel, parts of paraguay, bits of Australia, and so on. So, why would I desire to live in a suboptimal weather climate??? Because it'd be a better political/economic climate.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:58 AM (EzgxV)

768
767 Also, kudos to me for remembering how to format on this kludgy old site.

we were down in the O-side area visiting family on the 2nd or 3rd day, and you could see the pyro-cumulus from there... driving back into Lost Angels that night was surreal... hot spots and flames all over the southern slopes of the San Gabriels.

774
Well, I can't offer regular forest fires, but that's really a positive. The fires in the Smokies late last year were an anomaly, because those mountains normally stay very wet. Middle TN has no forest fires in spite of its many forests.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:12 AM (AaZLR)

775
Red, I build out rifles for myself and friends pretty regularly, no problem. ARs, AKs, whatever. Member of the most laid-back gun club ever, just a 25 minute drive. No state income tax, but a 9.25% sales tax that everyone, scumbag to saint, has to pay. If you have investments, the taxes on interest are very low as well. On the whole, the tax code is very pro-capital and getting moreso with each legislative session.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:15 AM (AaZLR)

776
I take it we have a snow coating out there but haven't looked yet.
Good morning horde

777
777 No snow in the Nashville depression (greatest natural umbrella ever), but reports of 1"+ on the plateau.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:19 AM (AaZLR)

778
Well, I can't offer regular forest fires, but that's really a positive.---out here, the chaparral HAS to burn on a routine basis... but man stops it, so, when it DOES burn, there's so much fuel, even the top soil burns and the fires go all the way to the ocean in some places.

same for western forests, and the redwoods. if they don't have regular small fires every so often, brush and other flammables build up, diseased trees don't get killed off, and then, when you finally DO have a fire, everything goes up in smoke.

That's Federal Forest Management 101. Can't clear the brush, can't let it burn , and then it does anyway after years of buildup, then we're supposed to feel bad for the people losing property but not hold anyone responsible. It's become a ritual.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:28 AM (AaZLR)

781
Cast more bullets yesterday when I got home and 2 ingots 4 -5 lbs each. Too much fun, still have quite a few pounds of tire weights to clean.

TVA does Hydro power, absolutely the most dependable and cheapest as well as Nuclear which ain't so cheap but is rock solid dependable. My watermelon cousin keeps bleating about solar and wind power and I keep telling him that the earth spins on it's axis once every 24 hours with some days being cloudy and others totally windless.

790
Big difference between the big grid and personal use, though .... I've got 1000 watts of solar charging an array of batteries out back, and an 800 watt windmill on a pole I could run up if needed .... but that's me and my personal backup plan, without tax breaks or grid-ties of any kind. I don't expect to make money on it, and the three outages it's taken me through have been adequate ROI already.

If I want good numbers, I do it myself, preferably from data I
collect myself. Numbers from books more than 20 years old are usually
okay.

But I feel a rant coming on ....

How you doing today ?

G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 05:41 AM (rPwVA)

I'm OK except no coffee, no breakfast, and not even water. Going in for colonoscapy this morning.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 05:59 AM (mpXpK)

792
788 TVA does Hydro power, absolutely the most dependable
and cheapest as well as Nuclear which ain't so cheap but is rock solid
dependable. My watermelon cousin keeps bleating about solar and wind
power and I keep telling him that the earth spins on it's axis once
every 24 hours with some days being cloudy and others totally windless.

My old plant was 13 mils/kw-hr on a three year running average. That was the cheapest on our system outside of hydro. The last numbers I saw on solar were measured in dollars/kw-hr. Wind was about the same.

795
Ouch. Yeah, I remember you mentioning that earlier in the week.
Got no easy words for that, at all .... hope it's over soon so you can eat and drink again, and that the results are entirely negative, as in "nothing to see here".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 06:07 AM (rPwVA)

796
The roof-top solar arrays I have seen advertised costs around $20,000 installed. They do not provide enough power to run your house even in the day time if you are running a heat pump for heating or cooling.

And their expected lifetime is only about 10 years. Now those numbers are oold because I have been gone from the industry about 10 years. But I don't suppose the have changed much.

At those rates you don't reach pay-off on them until about 15 to 20 years in the Southeast. IOW, you lose money. Now in Southern CA that payoff is reached much earlier. But that is because their electric rates used to be about triple ours.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

797
Also, the last time I was at "home" in GA I was going around with my little brother and we drove by the old HS. They had installed a huge field full of solar arrays for the HS. He said it was a huge boondoggle that was costing the city $500M per year. And was hundreds of thousands of dollars HIGHER than if they just paid standard GA Power prices. And they were locked in to a contract for 5 years and did they did not even own the solar arrays.

Said it was a huge scandal but never mentioned in the local paper because Democrat.

My first time (Mmm a colin cancer survivor, so I went early) my female Gastroenterologist patted my hand after the procedure and told me I had a beautiful colon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:36 AM (u82oZ)

802
Not that bad here, only 42F but going to get much worse tonight and Sat. More on that in the links.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:36 AM (mpXpK)

803
I think the high is going to be around 10 degrees today. Yesterday I was late for the train and forgot hat, scarf and had to use crappy drug store emergency gloves. Mistake I won't be making today.

806
When I tried to click on the Robert Stacy McCain link, I got an error message from something called "The Medium", stating "This page is under investigation or was found to be in violation of The Medium rules." What the heck is this and how do I get it off my computer?

819
As Andrew B had it right when said about #War ... they hate us, we can not ever compromise, fight for everything, we are winning, ask DJT if you're not sure,, fuck them, never apologize, compensate or go half way.. it is war, we are winning, go forward, it's the only way forward

Posted by: Hansen pissed off at January 06, 2017 06:54 AM (HGPlp)

820
Thanks. Krebs vs Carnot. THe Horde inspires me to go out every day with a happy song in my heart. Collectively, the humor here makes an outrage meter a thing of the past

BTW, I always smile when I see your nic. Who will win, the biochemist or the physical chemist? I see the hot biochem grad students giving their cycle a push, and the p-chem students from the basement are aligning a laser.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

821
Well, the boy and his wife and their two dogs are driving from Knoxville to DFW today and it looks like snow along the route all the way to Little Rock, maybe Texarkana. Lucky, lucky him.

824
Not doing much here in Alexandria, VA. No snow and its cold. Upper 20's I guess. I work all weekend and its going to snow tomorrow. That means it will be a light dusting here in DC and everybody will freak out. Because its what they do. DC is a silly place.

Awoke to four inches of snow. Had intended to drive to the county seat today to get my driver's license. Fat chance I'd set even one tire on these roads right now.

On the chaos currently reigning in our school systems...my stepdaughter is a downsized engineer in Iowa who decided to fill in the income gap by substitute teaching. On the days when she can actually bring herself to go in she returns home with a dazed look and struggles to try to explain what happened that day. It's as though she sees it but cannot comprehend it.

Posted by: creeper...Home on her hill at January 06, 2017 07:00 AM (FE+I8)

827
You might know on a day that I need to get my links in early JJ would be running late.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:03 AM (mpXpK)

828Well, the boy and his wife and their two dogs are driving from Knoxville to DFW today

I used to live in Knoxville. Liked it.

East Tennessee is one of the prettiest places I've ever been.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 06, 2017 07:03 AM (fiGNd)

829Posted by: creeper...Home on her hill at January 06, 2017 07:00 AM (FE+I

I substitute taught around 1980 for a few months. I was a pretty good teacher; one principle wanted me full-time. But that short stint taught me teaching was not for me. But if you're in teaching for the love of teaching, I can see where there are some great personal rewards to be had.

More noos. Today is Friday, January 06, 2017. On this day in 1974 in response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commenced nearly four months early in the United States. An incredibly stupid act from an all Democrat Congress and the most liberal Republican to ever occupy the WH, Richard Nixon. Daylight savings time is a fraud. It has never been shown to save one iota of energy and even if it did, how in the hell would this save "oil". DST is kept in place to make merchants happy and even any possible gain from that is dubious.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:07 AM (mpXpK)

831
As expected the ranchers out west are not happy with the Choom's latest "Monument" land grab. One hopes they all voted for Trump and that Trump AND congress are going to reverse this BS. The Antiquities Act needs to be either repealed or severely altered. A hog wild President should not be able to make such drastic changes on their way out the door.

http://fxn.ws/2iJ6TVt

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:07 AM (mpXpK)

832
More info from Scankles released emails shows she really was a criminal and an idiot.

Back in the late 80s while I was out in Eastern KY flying a forestry surveillance route I had a chance to fly a day trip into Knoxville. It was beautiful.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2017 07:08 AM (qKHgx)

834
The House in a bipartisan vote approved a measure to condemn the UN for its Israel resolution. They should have included Obama in the "condemnation" since he is the one who orchestrated that UN vote. And some Democrats recognized that and of course voted against the measure.

"We're in the business of publishing information about power," Assange said. "Why are we in the business of publishing information about power? Because people can do things with power, they can do very bad things with power. If they're incompetent, they can do dangerous things. If they're evil, they can do wicked things."

I would say that pretty much sums up the Choom legacy that the MFM is looking for; incompetent and evil.

http://fxn.ws/2iXkCI1

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

836
Morons in the South, baton down the hatches and stand clear of the weather decks. There may not be any high winds and heavy seas but we here are about to get some really crappy weather. They have changed the forecast here again but they are still calling for a mix of rain, sleet, and snow tomorrow. That is the worst kind of weather for here because it will bring down heavy tree limbs on the power lines and cause widespread blackouts. And in the South most people use heat pumps for heating and cooling.

http://fxn.ws/2hX8Xfb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

837
Trump warns Toyota about building a proposed car plant in Mexico. He says stand by for some heavy taxes. He should promise he will get rid of a lot of the regulations that cause manufacturers to move to Mexico.

http://fxn.ws/2iIVapJ

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

838
TX is about to join NC in requiring people to use the correct bathrooms and locker room facilities. An action that should not be necessary.

840
Speaking of incompetent idiots, Yahoo news tries to take a dig at Trump who has said he wants to get the Navy size back up. But they make a significant typo and evidently have no proofreaders.

http://bit.ly/2iPcxbb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

841
The latest on the DNC Russian hack. Get this; the FBI says they did not analyze the DNC servers because the DNC refused to give them to them to analyze. In effect, they knew the "Russian Election Hack" was BS.

" It's as though she sees it but cannot comprehend it." So much of life is like that these days. One of my greatest hopes for the incoming administration is not a specific policy as such, but a generalized cutting through the bs that encrusts everything .... a return to truth-telling.
"The Rectification of Names".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 07:11 AM (rPwVA)

847
Snow-Armageddon to arrive in Atlanta this evening. Have sleds ready for the kids and the Jeep all gassed up to go find some good hills. If this falls apart or just a dusting like other false alarms past couple years there is going to be hell to pay.

853
832 More info from Scankles released emails shows she really was a criminal and an idiot.
=========================

The linky no worky.

Posted by: MTF at January 06, 2017 07:17 AM (X4ZNp)

854
I know everyone in the Chicago area will want tickets to Obama's farewell address... Ticket distribution will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at McCormick Place. No lineup before 6am..Standing out in the cold would be worth it, right??

Posted by: Colin at January 06, 2017 07:19 AM (ogUTd)

855
Back in the late 80s while I was out in Eastern KY flying a forestry surveillance route I had a chance to fly a day trip into Knoxville. It was beautiful.

858
What will the left try next, a plague of locust? Three days of impenetrable darkness? Pestilence?

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2017 07:15 AM (1BQGall of the above!

Posted by: Colin at January 06, 2017 07:22 AM (ogUTd)

859
"The latest on the DNC Russian hack. Get this; the FBI says they did not analyze the DNC servers because the DNC refused to give them to them to analyze. In effect, they knew the "Russian Election Hack" was BS."

I kind of remember this from months ago when it first broke; private "security consultants" blamed it on "Russian hackers" based on a typo in the code somewhere .... so this crapola is all old news served up reheated, huh ?
What a surprise.

One of the original "Florodora Sextette," she became the mistress of gambler Caesar Young. On the morning of June 4, 1904, she was in a hansom can with Caesar, driving down to the Hudson River pier, where Caesar was to meet his wife before taking her on a transatlantic trip.

At the intersection of West Broadway and Franklin, bystanders were shocked to hear a pistol shot ring out and Patterson wail, "why did you do this to me?" Police rushing to the cab found Caesar, his head in Patterson's lap, dying from a bullet to the chest.

A hysterical Patterson claimed that Caesar, despondent over her resolve to leave him, had committed suicide. The police, however, had their suspicions - not only had the bullet in the gambler's chest entered at an impossible angle for suicide, Caesar's gun was still in his pocket.

Patterson was put on trial for murder, twice, but both times got off because of a hung jury. And she went free.

In 1959, Newman Levy, son of Patterson's defense lawyer Abraham Levy, penned The Nan Patterson Case; I've never read it, so I don't know whether he thinks she was guilty or not.

Here's a link to a NYT article from December 24, 1904 concerning the first mistrial:

862
>>>A hog wild President should not be able to make such drastic changes on their way out the door.

First order of business for the new administration should be to conduct a thorough review of everything Obama has done since the election and undoing as much of it as possible.

Posted by: Anita Sarkeesian at January 06, 2017 07:29 AM (rH4JY)

863
I was on the Piss Train once thru the Urinals..they served free
"cakes" they leaked a little but were crunchy good...the scenery was hard to see outside the yellow windows and the aroma was San FransiCAN if you catch my drift.the WiFi was piss poor and all I could get was CNN....Cystitis Neuro Network
all in all a a bladder buster...recommended to Harry Reid and Nancy Prolapsi.